Coronavirus

Peter Grant Excerpts

Wednesday 17th June 2020 Commons Chamber

[Matt Hancock]

I am delighted to say that, because we made the stockpile in advance, the treatment is already in place, as of yesterday afternoon, in Cornwall—in Treliske Hospital—and right across the country.

[Peter Grant (Glenrothes) (SNP) [V]]

Any reduction at all in social distancing inevitably carries a risk of increasing the spread of the disease, so can the Secretary of State give an assurance that before the Government announce any reduction, he will publish his assessment of the public health, transmission and infection implications of any such change?

[Matt Hancock]

I am legally obliged by the Act that governs this area of policy to undertake such a review before those changes are made.